Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-12-31
OUR HOLIDAY NUMBER.

To-day is issued the Holiday MINER.
An inspection of it's contents will convince
anyone that the result fully justi6es the
time and labor expended in its production.
In planning this work, the intention was to
present as full and accurate an account Of
the present condition Of the Territory Of
Montana and the adjacent districts OF
Idaho so intimately connected with it as It
10 possible to lay before . readers. In
the accomplishment Of this task, TIE
MINER applied for information to gentle
men whose intimate acquaintance with the
subjects they have written up warrants the
statement that the articles from their sew.
eral pens are such . presentment az can be
found nowhere else. They will be found to
contain a mass OF we'll digested and care.
fully assorted information upon every
topic that can come within the compass OF
the plan OF this work. Montana's chief
industry, it's mines and mineral resources,
receives, of course, chief attention. and the
valuable properties surrounding Butte are
exhaustively written up. The mining re-
gion of the Ceur d'Alens country Of Idaho
also receives careful and discriminating
attention, q work upon which
Mr.. w. j. Penrose, whose
eminent capacity to handle the subject
effectively ia well known in this community,
expended his best efforts. The descriptions
OF the various counties of the Territory
show the marvellous resources possessed
by Montana and will prove q revelation to
many who thought themselves we'll posted
on the subject. Her wealth Of mineral,
both precious and base, 10 scarcely known
to the rest OF the country and the accurate
and statistical Information presented in
the Holiday edition will help to disseminate
an idea of the store OF wealth yet undevel.
oped more completely than ever before at
tempted in a work OF like nature. 1t is
customary for papers in the East
at this season to give q resume OF
dry facts and figures pertaining to their
city's progress during the past year
The Holiday edition OF The MINER is con-
fined within no such narrow bounds. The
projectors of the edition laid before them
selves q wider, nobler task than this, no
less than the presentation OF the condition,
progress and development oil the whole
Territory, and it will be universally con
coded that they have we'll fulfilled the self
imposed task. They a confidently lay
the result OF their work before the public
in the full assurance that it will be appre-
ciated at it's full value by those to whom it
is OF chief interest-the citizens ofMontana.
No better advertisement OF this Territory's
marvellous wealth and resources can be
produced within the same compass, and
it's distribution broadcast into every CEN
ter Of wealth and intelligence in the land
will evoke surprise and admiration wher-
ever it m at the wonderful facts it re-
From a typographical point
of view. The MINER confident
~ claims that its Holiday
could not be surpassed even in the
best printing offices OF the East, an asser.
ton hat requires but a glance to confirm.
1t would be a credit to any metropolitan
establishment in material. style and beauty
OF press work, and from cover to cover, in
elusive, was produced entirely in The
job establishment. TIE art dis
in mechanical execution reflects the
credit upon the employees whose
it is, and is itself an evidence OF
the proficiency of this branch of trade in
To Mr.. Phil. w. Julien belongs the
credit OF the laborious work OF editing the
Holiday edition, and the result OF his
labors is O sufficient testimonial OF the high
ability be brought to the discharge OF his
duty.